14-year-old accidentally shoots 16-year-old accomplice as the two tried to carjack a man, police say
By First Alert 4 Staff and Amanda Alvarado
Published: Nov. 27, 2024 at 9:10 AM EST
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ST. LOUIS (KMOV/Gray News) – A 14-year-old suspect accidentally shot his 16-year-old accomplice as they tried to carjack a man on Monday.
According to police, the teenagers approached a 73-year-old man who was sitting in a parked car. The teens allegedly pointed a gun at him and demanded his keys. The man threw his keys in a nearby open field.
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First, gun safety needs to be taught early in life. Eddie Eagle says: “Don’t touch a gun”, Clearly, this youth missed class the day they taught that.
“I told you that ‘juvenile delinquent’ is a contradiction in terms. ‘Delinquent’ means ‘failing in duty.’ But duty is an adult virtue—indeed a juvenile becomes an adult when, and only when, he acquires a knowledge of duty and embraces it as dearer than the self-love he was born with. There never was, there cannot be a ‘juvenile delinquent.’ But for every juvenile criminal there are always one or more adult delinquents—people of mature years who either do not know their duty, or who, knowing it, fail.” ― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
All I can suggest is that these young men be charged as adults.
Horific, as that sounds, how else can we send a message that we as a society will not tolerate lawlessness by anyone.
“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” — Robert A. Heinlein
Obviously, the 73 year old man needs the means to level the playing field. Time to up the stakes by making “crime” a risky course of action.
“I particularly like unlimited concealed carry. If the criminal regards the general public as sheep to be shorn, then let’s sprinkle in a few “sheepdogs” with big teeth in the flock.
- Guess which gay to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Pink Pistol and you’re dead!
- Guess which woman to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Paxton Quigly and you’re dead!
- Guess which brown person to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Massad Ayoob and you’re dead!”
https://reinkefaceslife.com/2006/11/02/guns-lets-sprinkle-in-a-few-sheepdogs-with-big-teeth-in-the-flock/
GUNS: Let’s sprinkle in a few “sheepdogs” with big teeth in the flock
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006 at 20:26
Ferdinand John Reinke
I still feel this way.
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